SXSW 2012: A Final Round-Up of Indiewire’s Coverage

SXSW 2012: A Final Round-Up of Indiewire's Coverage

This weekend marks the end of this year's SXSW and the Indiewire network was on the scene for the whole thing. Earlier in the week we provided you with a mid-festival round-up of all our coverage up until that point and now we have a final roundup to help you easily sort through what happened during the rest of the week.

Click through below for all the news, reviews, and features out of SXSW from the Indiewire network:

Indiewire

The 8 Film Startups You Should Know From SXSW
If you're a film person on the SXSW Interactive trade show floor, it's easy to leave with a complex. Film, to put it mildly, is not a priority for tech people — and these people, easily identified by the orange lanyards attached to the all-important badges, are everywhere.

SXSW '12 | Joss Whedon: 'I want to make things that are small, pure and odd.'
Joss Whedon looks tired, really tired, when I meet him at the Four Seasons in Austin for a quick one-on-one. Can you blame him?

Criticwire

SXSW Review Capsule: 'The Tall Man'In director Pascal Laugier's follow-up to his better-received 2008 film "Martyrs," "The Tall Man" stars Jessica Biel as Julia Denning, a nurse in a rural Washington town where children are systematically disappearing.

SXSW Review Capsule: 'Somebody Up There Likes Me'
For a screenwriter, dealing with the aging process in any nonlinear fashion is always a risk. Toying with the natural progression of youth into old age has the potential to come off as manipulative or cheap. Yet that's the task that writer/director Bob Byington assumes with "Somebody Up There Likes Me."

SXSW Review Capsule: 'The Do-Deca Pentathlon'
A known quantity in the world of independent film, Jay and Mark Duplass have been hard to ignore since their 2008 film "Baghead," if not since their feature-length debut "The Puffy Chair" in 2005.

SXSW Review Capsule: 'King Kelly'
Odds are good that, by now, you're probably tired of the phrase "found footage." In the wake of a bevy of horror franchises built under the same conceit, the genre's grown exponentially over the last half-decade. While it remains to be seen whether "King Kelly" will be the last frontier in this particular cinematic realm, the production style that produced it is garnering some significant attention.

SXSW Review Capsule: 'Starlet'
Unlikely relationships often make for a compelling narrative. When two or more people with no seeming overlap in interests or backgrounds come together, it often illuminates an intriguing part of the characters of those involved. "Starlet" features one such relationship

Shadow and Act

SXSW 2012 Review – "21 Jump Street" (Wake Me Up When It's Over)
I’ll just keep this short and sweet and say that the movie just wasn’t for me; others in the audience seemed to really love it though, laughing at every little joke – and not just laughing, but laughing accompanied by screaming, fist pounding, feet kicking, cackling and much more.